Chapter 685 - The First New Dish After Chinese New Year (1/2)

The astonishment of the girls did not affect the other frequent customers. They merely felt melancholic recalling how they had been shocked like this in the past as well.

For example, in his melancholy, Chen Wei sighed, “Yet another year has passed. I’m getting old.”

It was not enough for Chen Wei to feel like he had grown old alone, he had to go ask Jiang Changxi about it as well.

“Time flies. Yet another year has passed. You feel like you have grown another year older, right?” Chen Wei directly asked Jiang Changxi.

“No, I don’t feel that way. I am still young and beautiful,” Jiang Changxi said grudgingly and glared at Chen Wei.

“Oh, fine. Wu Hai, don’t you feel old?” Chen Wei did not give up and thus, he repeated his question to Wu Hai.

Unfortunately, Wu Hai was still busy eating and had totally ignored him.

“Chen Wei, you won’t succeed,” Jiang Changxi calmly remarked.

Chen Wei did not mind that he had been seen through. He said naturally, “If he does answer me, it will be a success.”

“But Wu Hai will ignore you,” Jiang Changxi expressionlessly said.

“Why?” Chen Wei asked.

“Simple. Because he’s a glutton, an extremely dedicated glutton. He will ignore everyone until he finishes eating and starts snatching the food of others. He’s quite similar to how Boss Yuan is, ignoring everyone when he’s cooking,” Jiang Changxi said.

Chen Wei then thought back to how Wu Hai would normally act. Instantly, he agreed to what Jiang Changxi said.

However, Yuan Zhou was not as ready to acknowledge what Jiang Changxi said. He started cursing inwardly, “My concentration is something necessary for me to become a Master Chef. As for Wu Hai, he is nothing but a pig. The only thing he can do is eat. How can we be compared to each other?”

Yes, in Yuan Zhou’s heart, Wu Hai was a pig. His nature as a pig would grow stronger whenever there was free food. He would be able to eat a lot, also eating very quickly.

An example was the current Wu Hai who was eating with the free meal ticket.

Time passed quickly. In the blink of an eye, the third day of Chinese New Year arrived. Some companies had already started their operations again. Naturally, Wu Zhou’s IT company was one of them as well.

The employees of Jiang Changxi’s company were starting to return to work as well.

As for Yuan Zhou, he was preparing to release a new dish. After all, it was a brand new year.

“Now that I have the complete Chengdu School of Sichuan Cuisine, I have many options.” Yuan Zhou was in deep thought while looking at the long list of dish names.

His eyes scanned through the menu rapidly and abruptly stopped at one spot. Then, he made up his mind.

This was a dish that Yuan Zhou himself had never eaten. Therefore, at noon, he had this dish for lunch.

“Happy new year, boss,” greeted both Mu Xiaoyun and Zhou Jia at the same time with a bow.

“Happy new year.” Yuan Zhou nodded.

“Why are you two here?” Yuan Zhou asked after he double checked and confirmed that they shouldn’t be back for work yet.

“The college opened earlier so I came back early,” said Zhou Jia, sincerity filling her delicate face.

“I don’t have to go visit relatives today so I came here to have a look,” Mu Xiaoyun said, her apple-shaped face was slightly flushed red.

“Ok. Come in then,” Yuan Zhou invited them in without commenting much even though the two were obviously lying.

“Hu.” The two exchanged gazes and heaved a sigh of relief.

In fact, they had arrived so early because they found out in the chat group that Yuan Zhou was going to officially reopen his restaurant after the Chinese New Year today. Therefore, Zhou Jia rushed back to Chengdu, while Mu Xiaoyun decided to not go visit her relatives today. That was why both of them had arrived here.

Of course, they had only arrived when it was nearly noon. It was quite fortunate that they were able to make it in time for the lunch hour.